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Subject: How Trump saved the Democratic Party from itself
Whatever happens on Election Day, the political mobilization that we’ve seen in
this country in response to the Trump administration was never destined to be.
It could easily have gone a different direction, but for the decisions made by
millions of people to get involved in politics in a way they hadn’t before. In
doing so, they’ve transformed the Democratic Party and, through the explosion
of small-dollar giving, the democratic system itself.
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Whatever happens on Election Day, the political mobilization that we’ve seen in
this country in response to the Trump administration was never destined to be.
It could easily have gone a different direction, but for the decisions made by
millions of people to get involved in politics in a way they hadn’t before. In
doing so, they’ve transformed the Democratic Party and, through the explosion
of small-dollar giving, the democratic system itself.
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Here’s my election eve story on how it all came together, with a reporting
assist by Dave Dayen.
For Election Day I’ll be in New Holland, Pennsylvania, to check in on the Jess
King race there. (She’s the candidate
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running strong in Amish Country.)
In the evening I’ll be in New York doing election night punditry alternately
for Democracy Now and CBSN. Democracy Now partnered with The Intercept for
coverage and I’ll be on there from 8-10 pm, and on CBSN the rest of the night.
I’m kind of glad I’ll be on air, it’s a nice way to distract myself.
One thing to watch for will be the Rust Belt and beyond, as Democrats are
threatening to win gubernatorial races in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma. The implications for workers and for 2020 are
profound.
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Here’s Jon Schwarz on that. And here’s a video
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I did for TYT on the same theme.
How Donald Trump Saved the Democratic Party From Itself
On the morning of November 9, 2016, millions of Americans woke up in a fog. In
New Holland, Pennsylvania, Annie Weaver stopped at the Wawa on her way to the
school where she teaches, and she couldn’t look anybody in the eye. Brandi
Calvert, a real estate agent in Wichita, Kansas, only got out of bed because
she had to take her 11-year-old boy to school. Before heading out, she told him
what had happened, but he refused to believe her.
I walked my daughter to school that morning in Washington, D.C. and went inside
for her kindergarten class’s biweekly open house. A third-grader had drawn the
assignment of reading the day’s news over the PA system, and he began with a
brief history of the expansion of voting rights. He then ventured into more
recent events: “In 2008, Barack Obama was the first African-American elected
president. This year, in 2016, Hillary Clinton was the first female president —
nominee. In a surprising election, she was defeated by Donald Trump,” he said.
“Stop by room 308 to see our timeline. Have a great day.”
My daughter — who’d very much been “rooting for the girl to win” and found
Trump to be a miscreant and an offensive bully — stood unusually silent, as her
teacher, clad in black jeans and an olive green hijab, turned her face to hide
her tears.
There was nothing to say — nothing that could be said — to make right the raw
fact that, after a hate-filled, vitriolic campaign, enough people in the United
States had voted for Donald Trump to make him our 45th president.
Back in Wichita, Calvert drove home and called her mother. “I went through the
emotions of crying and being angry and disbelief, and surely it was a mistake
and will be corrected,” she recalled.
After processing her grief, a two-week-long endeavor, she said, Calvert, like
millions of people across the country, became consumed by the need to “do
something.” There was nothing to say, but there was something to do. Still,
what was that something?
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